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Description edit
“Pelagia’s family likeness to Father Brown and Miss Marple is marked, and reading about her supplies a similarly decorous pleasure.” – The Literary Review In a remote Russian province in the late nineteenth century, Bishop Mitrofanii must deal with a family crisis. After learning that one of... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Sister Pelagia: Add a description of this character.
- Vladimir Lvovich
- Bubentsov
- Naina Georgievna
- Shiryaev
- Mitrofanii
- Tanya
- Marya Afanasievna
- Anton Antonovich
- Mr. Berdichevsky
- Stepan Trofimovich
- Felix Stanislavovich
- Matvei Bentsionovich
- Poggio
- Your Grace
- Pyotr Georgievich
- Naina Telianova
- Arkadii Sergeevich
- Konstantin Petrovich
- Krasnov
- Tikhon Ieremeevich
- Zakusai
- Marvel Bentsionovich
- Gerasim
- Marya Afimasievna
- Murad
- Zakidai
- Spasyonny
- Mitrofimii
- Marvei Bentsionovich
- His Grace
- Olympiada Savelievna
- Ludmila Platonovna
- Polina Andreevna
- Drozdovka
- Ito
- Tatishcheva
- Korsh
- Mitrolanii
- Djuraev
- Zavolzhsk
- Sytnikov
First Sentence edit
...But I should tell you that, come the apple festival of Transfiguration Day, when the sky begins to change from summer to autumn, it is the usual thing for our town to be overrun by an absolute plague of cicadas, so that by night, much as you might wish to sleep, you never can, what with all that interminable trilling on all sides, and the stars hanging down low over your head, and especially with the moon dangling just above the tops of the bell towers, for all the world like one of our renowned "smetana" apples, the kind all the local merchants supply to the royal court and even take to shows in Europe.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 3 in Sister Pelagia. (standard series)
Followed by Sister Pelagia and the Black Monk.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Boris Akunin (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: Russian
Publisher: AST
Country: Russia
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 5237050697
Page Count: 397
Publisher: AST
Country: Russia
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 5237050697
Page Count: 397
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 891.735
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